?? - Technorati

So what is the Chinese for "Technorati"? There is no Chinese Technorati website (only Japanese and they seem to use English and テクノラティ. I have no idea what that is, it's not Kanji). Wikipedia in Chinese only shows the English.

Now the word itself is clearly derived from "literati" (as is "digerati" and the earlier "glitterati") which we've lifted from Italian. For "literati" Google gives 文人 (wenren, "literature person"). It isn't in my Oxford dictionary, but they give the reverse translation as "man of letters, scholar".

Some guesses I had were: 科人, 技人, or 科技人.
Google translates these as "branch people", "technical people" and "IT people".

But 技人 may have something to do with some artists or dancers of some Three Kingdoms era political party?

科技人 does seem to be a fairly well know term for IT workers, but that's at the opposite end of the spectrum from what we'd mean in English by Technorati.

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麻省理工学院 - MIT

麻省理工学院 (máshěng lǐgōng xuéyuàn)- MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I studied Computer Science here, and also worked as Sponsored Research Staff for a while.

MIT is in 麻省 (máshěng, "MA province") a variant of 麻州 (mázhōu, "MA state") the more common abbreviation for 麻萨诸塞州 (麻薩諸塞州 másàzhūsāizhōu) the official name of Massachusetts.

理工 (lǐgōng, literally "reason/logic work") is "science" or "engineering", what everyone studies here.

A 学院 (xuéyuàn, "study public place") is a college or institute.

That liberal arts school up the river is 哈佛大学 (hāfó dàxué, "Laughing Buddha University"), where millions of Chinese parents want to send their children. I studied Chinese at 哈佛夜学 (Harvard Extension School) with 林老师，万老师 and 吴老师.

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网络会议 : wǎnglù huìyì - web conference

My company Glance Networks runs a simple, easy to use web conferencing service for webinars, screen sharing, web demos and presentations.

网络会议 (wǎnglù huìyì) is "web conference" or "web meeting", more literally "network meeting".

网络研讨会 - webinar
协作 - collaboration

Sorry for all the SEO on this post, sometimes you gotta promote...

• Glance Networks - web conferencing, webinars, web demos and presentations


• Mac web conferencing too, from Glance.